Song of the week: Post Malone takes a victory lap with 'Wow'

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Post Malone's commercial breakthrough may have arrived in 2017, but 2018 was the year the rapper/singer cemented his status as a pop music juggernaut, closing out December as one of the best-selling and most-streamed artists of 2018.

Arriving several weeks after he scored an album of the year Grammy nomination for "Beerbongs and Bentleys," Malone takes a victory lap with the new song "Wow," his surprise new track he first shared on Christmas Eve. While the "Wow" music video depicts a trippy cartoon Christmas, there's nothing holiday-themed about the track itself, which is less remarkable for its chilly, minimalist sound – which is a Malone trademark at this point – than its left-field lyrical references, as the rapper rhymes "LaCroix" and "Fall Out Boy" in the song's opening lines.

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Post Malone poses with the award for song of the year for "Rockstar" in the press room at the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in New York. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP